2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Victor Hugo's 1831 Gothic Romantic novel set in 15th-century Paris — following Quasimodo the bell-ringer, Esmeralda the dancer, and the archdeacon Frollo — which also argued passionately for the preservation of Gothic architecture against modernization.
A 1983 novel by Graham Swift in which a history teacher, facing redundancy, addresses his class with a sprawling, non-linear personal and historical narrative that refuses to separate his private life from the history he teaches.